PBS Channels 8 & 31 - Duluth / Superior & Hibbing

Sherlock Holmes: Series II

The struggle goes on in 21st-century London as the updated team of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the worst that modern criminality has to offer. Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the world’s foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes; with Martin Freeman as the stalwart, if edgy, Dr. John Watson, and Andrew Scott as the unassuming mastermind of evil, Jim Moriarty. Did we mention the dominatrix?

Masterpiece Mystery!Sherlock Holmes: Series II

Sundays, May 6-20

May 6, 8pm

Sherlock and Watson are plunged into a case of blackmail involving crafty dominatrix Irene Adler. It seems she has incriminating photos of a session with a British royal. Can she outsmart Sherlock at his own game? And at a battle he is ill prepared to wage - love?

May 13, 8pm

Sherlock and Watson pursue the trail of the Baskerville experiments - top-secret government research on genetically engineered gigantic animals for military use. Or so it is rumored. Whatever the truth, something big is up on the moors.

May 20, 8pm

In what may be the climatic case of his career, Sherlock faces Moriarty’s diabolical plot to “get Sherlock.” As the scheme unfolds, Moriarty poses the “final problem,” and a tabloid reporter reveals the “shocking truth” about the great detective.